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Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayesfc 
prosper and be in health.”— 3 John 2. 




PUBLISHED AT <] 

THE OFFICE OF THE HEALTH REFORMER, 
BATTLE CREEK, MICH. 

1874 . 







Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1874, by 
THE HEALTH REFORM INSTITUTE, 

In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington, D. C. 








CONTENTS. 


PAGE. 

Hygienic Agents, . 2 

Air, . 2 

Light, . 3 

Water, . 6 

Food, . 9 

Number op Meals, . 10 

Kind of Food, . 12 

Fats and Oils, . 14 

Manner of Eating, . 14 

Food for Infants, . 16 

Food for Adults, . 16 

Hot Drinks, . 17 

Temperature,. 18 

Clothing, . 20 

Exercise, . 28 

Rest, . 24 

How to Take Exercise and Rest, . 25 

Sleep, .. 26 

Beds and Bedding, . 26 

Bodily Habits, . 27 

Bodily Positions, . 28 

Mental and Social Influences, . 28 

External Relations, .;. 30 

Conclusion, . 31 



























NOTE TO THE READER. 


Good health is one of the greatest of Heaven’s boons. 
Not only on account of the immunity from physical suffering 
, which it brings, but because it increases our capacity for 
the enjoyment of all the blessings of life. Indeed, every 
one who has learned to appreciate the value of health by 
being deprived of it will be ready to admit that nearly all 
of the enjoyment to be derived from existence is dependent 
upon healthy conditions of the body. Any instruction, then, 
concerning the principles upon which sound health is based 
and the means of preserving it, must be of the most intense 
interest to all. And it is wtih the hope that this little work 
may effectually aid in the dissemination of this kind of 
knowledge that its publishers present it for the careful con¬ 
sideration of all candid men and women. 



GOOD HEALTH, 

-ANT)- 

II O W TO PRESEBVE IT. 


Health is that condition of the body in which 
every organ performs its whole duty; and as 
health consists of the proper performance of all 
the organic functions, it follows that health is 
normal vital action. When every organ of the 
body performs its whole duty, there is an equal¬ 
ized or balanced condition of the circulation of 
the blood in all parts of the system, and, conse¬ 
quently, a proportionate distribution of vital 
force. The digestive organs transform the food 
into good blood, the lungs receive sufficient air 
to properly vivify the life fluid, while the circu¬ 
latory organs convey it in an even and steady 
current to all parts of the system, and the depu¬ 
rating organs excrete therefrom the broken-down 
tissue, or worn-out material, and effete matters. 
When the system is properly maintained, it does 
not diminish in size or strength, neither does 
it become clogged with gross matter; but every¬ 
thing moves on in perfect harmony among the 
vital organs, and the mind is cheerful, hopeful, 
and clear, and the individual is happy. Such is 
health. There are certain conditions on which 
health is based, which it is highly important that 
we should understand if we would know how to 
restore the sick to health; for it is the absence, or 
change, of these conditions, that occasions disease. 

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GOOD HEALTH, AND 


Now as disease is an effect, it is evident that if 
we would have the effect cease, wo must remove 
the cause; and this we do when we supply the 
conditions on which health is based. 

HYGIENIC AGENTS, OR THE CONDITIONS ON WHICH 

HEALTH IS RASED. 

Air, —This is the first requisite to life and 
health. Without air, no living thing could sur¬ 
vive beyond a very brief space. Air is the first 
thing required by every being at its birth. The 
blood, while circulating through the lungs, comes 
in contact with the air contained within the air- 
cells and passages, and receives oxygen there¬ 
from, thereby becoming vivified. This vivification 
of the blood is very essential to the maintenance 
of life, for the amount and intensity of the vital 
force possessed by the flesh tissues depends large¬ 
ly upon the proper and constant aeration of the 
vital fluid, which is principally effected by the 
lungs, and can only be properly performed dur¬ 
ing full and free respiration. 

The part played by oxygen in the maintaining 
of life, so far as is known, is this: It bums up 
the broken-down tissues, and thus converts them 
into carbonic-acid gas and ashes. The gas is im¬ 
mediately absorbed by the red corpuscles of the 
blood, and is by them conveyed to the lungs, 
where it is exchanged for oxygen. It is this ex¬ 
change of carbonic-acid gas for oxygen that con¬ 
stitutes aeration. The ash which is left after the 
burning of the broken-down tissues is held in so¬ 
lution by the serum of the blood, and is by it 
transported to the various organs of depuration, 
by which it is separated from the blood and dis- 


HOW TO PRESERVE IT. 


3 


charged in the urine, perspiration, bile, and fecal 
matters. If oxygen is not received into the sys¬ 
tem in sufficient quantity, the broken-down tis¬ 
sues are not removed from among the living ones 
as they should be, and in consequence, their pres¬ 
ence prevents the formation of new tissue, and 
thus the body is not properly maintained. On 
the other hand, if oxygen is received into the 
system in sufficient quantity, all the worn-out 
matter is burned, or oxidized, and ample oppor¬ 
tunity is given for the rebuilding or repairing 
of all parts. Another benefit derived from the 
oxidation of the wastes of the body is the evolu¬ 
tion of heat; for it is by this process that the 
animal heat is produced and maintained. The 
demand for oxygen to assist in the work of dis¬ 
integration as above described is so great that an 
amount of blood equal to the entire volume of 
that contained in the body is carried to the lungs 
every three or four minutes for the purpose of 
throwing off its load of carbonic-acid gas and re¬ 
ceiving a fresh supply of oxygen. Now, as air 
sustains so important a relation to life and health, 
it is highly important that it should be received 
into the lungs in as pure a condition as possible. 
For this reason, every person, whether in health 
or in disease, should be located where he will not 
inhale the noxious gases that are thrown off by 
decaying vegetable or animal substances, nor 
those that arise from the chemical combination 
of minerals; and he should always see that his 
living and sleeping rooms are well ventilated 
both day and night. 

Light. —The sun is the great source of life 
for every vitalized thing or being upon the earth. 


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GOOD HEALTH, AND 


Without its genial influences, nothing that now 
lives could long survive, and no more vitalized 
structures, either vegetable or animal, could be 
produced. The plant cannot grow when de¬ 
prived of sunlight. Place it in a dark cellar and 
feed it with the choicest of fertilizers and water 
it with the best of plant drinks, yet if deprived 
of sunlight, it will not flourish, but gradually 
weakens. Its bright colors fade, it soon ceases 
to grow, and finally dies. This is also true of 
every member of the animal kingdom. Deprive 
them of the influence of sunlight, and they soon 
lose their activity, and their vitality gradually 
diminishes. The same is also true of human be¬ 
ings. Those who are most in the sunlight are 
the most hardy of the race. 

A child can be raised no more successfully in 
the dark, or in deep shade, than can a vegetable. 
Look at those who are reared in the dark¬ 
ened rooms and shaded streets of our crowded 
cities. They are puny, sickly persons. The mor¬ 
tuary tables show that one-half of the offspring 
of those who live in populous cities die under 
five years of age, and that very few of the other 
half reach the age of forty years; while of those 
who are born in the crowded tenement houses or 
in habitations situated on dark or shaded streets, 
very few reach manhood or womanhood. The 
majority pass into the grave in childhood, and of 
those that survive, the major part have but fee¬ 
ble constitutions and are always ailing. Look 
at the daughters of the wealthy. Why is it that 
they are so enfeebled ? The fact that they are 
kept in from the sunshine lest their skin should 
become tawny, and the additional fact that the 
sunlight is shut out from their dwelling rooms 

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HOW TO PRESERVE IT. 


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and parlors lest it should fade the rich carpets 
and injure the elegant furniture, is one of the 
chief reasons why the bloom of health disappears 
from their cheeks. 

As a hygienic agent, sunlight stands second to 
very few others. So important is its influence 
to the manifestation and maintenance of life and 
health that human beings should ever seek to 
spend as much as possible of their time in the light. 

Throw open the shutters and let in the sun¬ 
shine if you would have health. The sick, espe¬ 
cially, should be allowed to enjoy all the bene¬ 
fits which are imparted by this health-giving 
agent. There are very few diseases from which 
the patient would not recover quicker in a light 
room than in a darkened one. Light imparts 
cheerfulness, confidence, and trust; while dark¬ 
ness, or deep shade, always produces a tendency 
to gloom, despondency, and dread, in the sick or 
nervous person. 

Sunlight and pure air serve to prevent damp¬ 
ness and the formation of vegetable mold, and 
also serve to drive these from every nook and 
comer into which they are permitted to enter. 

In fact, these two agents—sunlight and pure 
air—occupy so important a position as hygienic 
agents that very many diseased individuals can 
never regain health until they adopt the plan of 
living much of the time in the open air, or at 
least where they shall receive the full benefit of 
the sun’s genial rays and the invigorating influ¬ 
ences of a pure atmosphere. Hence, we say to 
those who have charge of the sick, Admit the 
sunlight freely to your patients at all times, un¬ 
less they have weak eyes or are uncommonly 
nervous; but even then do not shut out all light. 


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GOOD HEALTH, AND 


Water. —As a hygienic agent, water occupies 
a very important position. It constitutes by far 
the greater portion of the bulk and weight of the 
body, and forms a very essential element in all 
of its tissues, some of them being almost wholly 
composed of water, of which the brain is an ex¬ 
ample. Water is also the chief constituent of the 
blood and is the medium by which the vitalized 
corpuscles, albumen, fibrine, and caseine—materi¬ 
als of which the tissues of the body are built—are 
transported to those parts where needed, for the 
purpose of repairing or building the tissues. It 
also serves as a means of transportation for con¬ 
veying the worn-out material and effete matters 
to those organs whose duty it is to remove them 
from the system. 

Another purpose which water serves is that of 
purification. The skin is an important organ of 
depuration, more than one-half of the effete mat¬ 
ters of the system being thrown out by it in con¬ 
nection with the insensible perspiration. These 
soon form a scaly incrustation which closes the 
pores of the skin unless it be kept cleansed with 
water. Many times individuals are made sick be¬ 
cause their skin has become clogged with impur¬ 
ities through want of proper bathing. 

Soft vxtter only should be used. When it is 
possible to obtain it, none but pure soft water 
should be used either for purposes of bathing, 
drinking, or cooking. In some parts of the coun¬ 
try, springs of soft water are to be found; while 
in others, soft water is obtained by digging wells. 
There are, however, many very large sections 
where only hard water can be obtained from 
either springs or wells; yet there are few habita¬ 
ble portions of the earth’s surface where a suf- 


HOW TO P .RESERVE IT. 


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ficient quantity of soft water cannot be obtained 
by catching the rain as it falls and storing it in 
cisterns, where it can ever be read/ at hand for 
use. 

Hard water should not be used either for cook¬ 
ing, drinking, or bathing, when soft water can be 
had, for the reason that the hard water contains 
certain mineral substances which are injurious to 
life, such as lime, salt, magnesia, borax, alum, 
iron, sulphur, etc. None of these, when taken 
into the system, are usable either in building up 
the tissues or in maintaining life ; and the organs 
of depuration, i. e., the liver, kidneys, mucous 
membrane of the intestines, skin, and lungs have 
to remove them from the system the same as they 
do the ashes and effete matters spoken of under 
the head of air; otherwise, the entire system 
would become clogged with them, the circulation 
would be impeded, the body thereby would be im¬ 
properly maintained, and death would soon ensue. 

One of the reasons why so many people suffer 
so much with diseased livers, kidney difficulties, 
lung complaints, bowel complaints, agues, fevers, 
skin diseases, rheumatism, etc., is because they 
drink hard water. The mineral substances taken 
into the system with the water have all to be cast 
out of the system by the above-mentioned organs 
of depuration, and they become overworked, worn- 
out, or diseased, in their endeavors to perform the 
extra work which is imposed upon them. 

Another evil that results from drinking hard 
water is the formation of hard concretions, or cal¬ 
culi, commonly known as gravel. These concre¬ 
tions may form in various parts of the body, but 
rre usually found in the kidneys and bladder, al¬ 
though they sometimes occur in the lungs and 


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GOOD HEALTH, AND 


also in the liver. These concretions are formed 
by the percipitation of the mineral substances 
held in solution in the blood. It is true that the 
use of hard water does not occasion any immedi¬ 
ate, appreciable ill effects, yet its continued use 
will sooner or later break down the strongest con¬ 
stitution, for as the various organs of depuration 
expend their vitality in eliminating these sub¬ 
stances, they have less strength wherewith to 
perform their usual work, and as a consequence 
the system becomes clogged with the wastes of 
the body and disease of some kind must follow, 
sooner or later. 

Pure water only should be used. All water 
that has stood long in the open air is liable to be¬ 
come impure, either by vegetable or animal sub¬ 
stances falling into it, or by the absorption of cer¬ 
tain noxious gases. Water containing vegetable 
or animal substances in a state of decomposition, 
or that has absorbed organic impurities by stand¬ 
ing in an open vessel over night or through the 
day in a room that is inhabited, is even more in¬ 
jurious than hard water, and should never be used 
without filtering. 

The rain water caught on wooden roofs always 
contains more or less decaying vegetable matter, 
which comes from the wood of the roof, while the 
dark or yellow color of the water is due to the 
presence of soot, smoke, dust, and other impuri¬ 
ties which collect upon the roof. 

Rain water can be rendered nearly pure by 
filtering. Water is filtered naturally by passing 
through large and compact bodies of sand, or 
through porous sandstone. Such water is usu¬ 
ally pure and soft. We can imitate nature by 
passing water through vessels filled with sand and 


HOW TO PRESERVE IT. 


9 


jharcoal. A good filter can be made by fitting a 
perforated false bottom into a barrel so as to leave 
m air chamber about three inches deep. Then 
ay over this bottom a layer of coarse gravel or 
iroken sandstone, then a second layer of broken - 
charcoal, the lumps the size of large peas. This 
should be well packed, so as to prevent the finer 
particles from sifting through. Then fill the bar¬ 
rel up to within three inches of the top with finely 
powdered charcoal that is freshly burned, mixed 
with twice its bulk of fine, well-washed sand. 
Cover the whole with a flannel cloth, and pour 
on the water. 

There should be a small pipe connecting with 
the chamber below, and this pipe should extend 
ts high as the top of the barrel. This pipe serves 
as an outlet and inlet for air as the filtered water 
raises or falls in the chamber. There should also 
be a stop-cock or faucet for drawing the filtered 
water from the chamber. Every family who 
would have health should have a cistern for rain 
water and a filter, unless they have soft spring or 
well water. As before stated, stone in the blad¬ 
der, gravel in the kidneys, calculi in the liver, and 
concretions and tubercles in the lungs are some 
of the evils resulting from the use of hard water. 

Food. —The tissues of our bodies are constant¬ 
ly wearing out. We cannot perform an act, or 
even think, without wearing out some portion of 
the tissues, and these require to be constantly re¬ 
plenished ; otherwise, the whole body would soon 
be used up. It is this wearing-out process that 
creates a demand for food. And as with all other 
things, so with the human body; its nature, form, 
properties, and other qualities, depend largely on 


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GOOD HEALTH, AND 


the nature and properties of the material from 
which it is constructed.. In order that our bod¬ 
ies may be maintained properly, it is necessary 
that our food should be just adapted to the wants 
of our systems. 

The food we eat should contain all the elements 
required to build up the body; otherwise, some 
part, or the whole, of the system will be improp¬ 
erly sustained. If our food is mingled with, or 
contains, elements that are not usable in the sys¬ 
tem, the organs of depuration have additional 
work to do in removing these unusable elements 
from the system, and this extra work will soon 
wear them out. 

Regularity should be observed in the time of 
eating; for the digestive organs become weary 
by long-continued labor, and require rest. In 
order that they may obtain this rest, it is neces¬ 
sary that the food should be taken at stated 
times, and never until the previous meal lias been 
digested, and the stomach had sufficient time to 
rest. 

The quantity of food taken at a meal has also 
an important influence upon the health. If food 
is taken in too great quantities or too frequently, 
it cannot be properly digested; consequently, the 
health and strength of the body will not be 
properly maintained, and a great amount of the 
vital force will be expended in expelling this 
same improperly digested food; for food which 
has not been properly digested is not usable, and 
is regarded by the system as a poison, as really 
as is any other foreign substance. 

Number of Meals. —The American people, as 
a rule, eat altogether too often to be healthy. 


HOW TO PRESERVE IT. 


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/Vfter a child is three or four years old, it should 
not he allowed to eat more than three times in 
the twenty-four hours, unless it is sick and able 
to take only a very little nutriment at a time. 
It is this pernicious habit of eating between 
meals that ruins the stomachs, and thus under¬ 
mines the constitutions, of children. They do 
not eat because they are hungry; for such 
children know nothing of real hunger. They have 
a morbid appetite, an unnatural craving, but this 
is not hunger. Infants under one year of age 
should take food four or five times in the twenty- 
four hours, at regular intervals. After they are 
one year old, three meals a day will be far better 
than more in the majority of cases; but of this, 
the mother or nurse must be the judge in each 
case. Adults who have always been in the habit 
of eating three meals a day, or of eating late 
suppers, usually rise in the morning with but 
little appetite for breakfast. The mouth has a 
bad taste, and they do not feel as well as after 
having been up a few hours. This is because 
they fell asleep with undigested food in their 
stomachs, and a part of the organs had to remain 
awake to digest this food, consequently, the sleep 
was not as refreshing as it would have been had 
all of the organs rested and slept together, and 
especially is this true of the stomach. 

The stomach is in direct connection with the 
brain by means of the pneumogastric nerve; 
therefore, when the stomach is actively at work, 
the brain must of necessity be more or less dis¬ 
turbed. It is for this reason that late suppers 
should never be indulged in. Those who have 
properly tried the two-meal system invariably 
find that they arc much better able to endure 


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GOOD HEALTH, AND 


severe, protracted labor, either mental or phys¬ 
ical, than they were when in the habit of eating 
three times a day. And, in addition, they line 
that their sleep is much more refreshing, they art 
not troubled with a disagreeable taste in the 
mouth on rising, and no longer suffer from soui 
stomach, heartburn, waterbrash, or eructations 
unless they overeat, which is sometimes the case 
even with those who eat but twice a day. 

The Kind of Food. —Every species of anima 
is just adapted to subsist on certain kinds of food 
Some species will thrive and maintain themselves 
in good condition on certain kinds of food upor 
which other animals would starve. 

Various as are the species belonging to the 
animal kingdom, they all derive their food, eithei 
directly or indirectly, from the vegetable king¬ 
dom. It is true that some classes of animals 
subsist wholly upon animal flesh, and that othe] 
classes, man included, make flesh a large portior 
of their aliment; yet the animals that are thus 
eaten derive their nourishment directly from the 
vegetable kingdom. So that all the nourishmenl 
taken by even the flesh-eating animals is derivec 
indirectly from the vegetable kingdom. 

The reason why one animal can subsist upor 
food upon which another would starve, is thal 
the digestive apparatus of each species of animals 
is just adapted to digest certain special kinds o: 
food, and no other kind of food can be so readily 
converted into blood as can that to which the di 
gestive organs are just adapted. An examina¬ 
tion of the organs of the various species of ani 
mals, and of their habits when in a state o: 
nature, with no artificial habits, will show us 


HOW TO PRESERVE IT. 


13 


ivliy one animal can subsist on small twigs and 
)OUglis of bushes or trees, while another uses 
straw or hay, and yet another subsists wholly 
ipon grain, while a fourth uses no other food 
ban fruit. The teeth, jaws, stomach, intestines, 
tnd other organs of these animals, will be found 
/O differ as widely in form and texture as the 
bods upon which these animals subsist differ in 
quality, solidity, and nutrient properties. There 
s no doubt but that man can subsist for a time, 
it least, upon very many kinds of vegetable sub¬ 
stances, and also upon most kinds of llcsli. In 
■act, nutrient properties are to be found in all 
shese; but in many of them there may also be 
bund innutritious substances that are not only 
lseless, but actually injurious, if not poisonous, 
when taken into the system. In the vegetable 
kingdom, all those substances which possess nar¬ 
cotic properties, or that stimulate or irritate the 
lervous organism, should be rejected. This class 
ncludes spices of all kinds, peppers, pungent and 
iromatic roots, plants, and herbs, tobacco, tea, cof- 
be, and herb drinks of all kinds, all vegetable ex¬ 
tracts and essential oils, together with large quanti¬ 
ties of sugar in any of its varied forms. It leaves, 
rowever, for the free use of man, all the culti¬ 
vated, and many of the uncultivated, fruits and 
Trains, and many varieties of esculent roots, all 
)f which, when properly prepared, are proper 
bod for man, as well as the most nourishing that 
re can use. 

Flesh-meat is not as good food for man as are 
vegetable substances. It contains no nutrient 
property that is not to be obtained from vegeta- 
3le substances, since the animal from which the 
lesh is obtained derived its nourishment from the 


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GOOD HEALTH, AND 


vegetable kingdom. All flesli, also, even while 
the animal is still in life and health, contains more 
or less broken-down tissue in a state of decompo¬ 
sition. After the animal lias been slaughtered, 
decomposition speedily becomes much more ex¬ 
tensive and rapidly progresses to putrefaction. 
In fact, freshly slaughtered flesh is not considered 
by epicures as being as palatable as that which 
has been slaughtered a few days. It is not as 
sweet, juicy, or tender as it is after the process 
of decomposition has commenced. These three 
properties are all due to its partial decomposition. 

Flesh-meat is said to be stimulating. This is 
because it contains decomposed and effete mat¬ 
ters, the debris and worn-out tissues of the body, 
which are regarded by the system as poisonous. 
It is the effort of the system to expel these which 
produces the effect called stimulation. 

Fats and Oils. —These substances should never 
be eaten, for they do not contain the proper ele¬ 
ments to build up the vital tissues. All our food 
contains more or less saccharine matter, as starch 
and sugar, and these are converted into fat in the 
body, so that we have an ample supply of such 
material without eating the fats and oils of either 
animals or vegetables. 

Manner of Eating. —The food of every hu¬ 
man being should be thoroughly masticated. 
When this is done, no inconvenience will be ex¬ 
perienced in partaking of a full meal without 
drink. There are two benefits to be derived from 
thorough mastication of the food. 1. The stom¬ 
ach will have less work to do, since it will not be 
obliged to perform any extra labor in reducing 
the food to a homogeneous licpiid, and thereby 


HOW TO PRESERVE IT. 


15 


Decomo prematurely worn out. '*2. The food be¬ 
comes thoroughly insalivated only when properly 
nasticated. The saliva is a digestive fluid, and 
vithout its aid, the food cannot be properly di¬ 
gested ; therefore, let every person eat slowly and 
nasticate his food well. Thirty minutes is as 
-ittle time as a person should occupy in eating 
m ordinary meal. A portion of this time should 
o& spent in cheerful conversation on some pleas- 
mt topic, for there is nothing more promotive to 
iigestion than cheerfulness of mind. 

Food for Infants. —Infants should take their 
food in a fluid condition until they have teeth 
Ruth which to masticate more solid kinds. The 
stomach of the infant differs quite materially 
from that of the adult, both in form and also in 
die texture of its walls. In infancy, its shape is 
nucli more conical than in adult life, and it is 
setter adapted to make use of fluid food then 
dian at any other period of life. 

The food of the infant should be its mother’s 
nilk; but if this is not to be had, cows’ milk 
should be substituted for it, always selecting a 
foung, healthy, new-milch cow. Milk from very 
ild, or diseased, or farrow cows is not fit for any 
luman stomach. If for any cause the mother’s 
nilk fails, and if good, fresh milk from a young, 
lealthy cow cannot be obtained, the child can be 
•eared successfully on food prepared from grains. 
Infants should not be allowed to eat sugar, butter, 
lor much cream, for these are the substances 
vhich go to make fat in the body, none of them 
leing convertible into flesh. While it is better 
,hat these things should be abstained from en- 
irely in most cases, yet it is true that a little 


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GOOD HEALTH, AND 


cream, if diluted with soft water, is not very ob¬ 
jectionable if only occasionally taken. The same 
is true of sugar used sparingly in the gruel; and 
in some cases, it is better that these things 
should be used. The chief objection to these 
things is their excessive use. It is impossible to 
lay down a rule that shall say just how much su¬ 
gar or cream a person can use without injury to 
his system, for the organs in one individual differ 
so much in tone and activity from those of an¬ 
other that the same amount of sugar or cream 
that one person might eat without injury would, 
if eaten by another, occasion most serious results. 
Therefore, it is far safer to let these things en¬ 
tirely alone. Children should not be allowed to 
overeat, to eat between meals, nor to eat candies, 
confectionery, nor condiments of any kind. One 
of the chief reasons why children have sores break 
out on various parts of their bodies is because they 
do not observe these rules. 

Food for Adults. —Adults, and in fact all 
persons over two or three years of age, require 
solid food. 13y solid food is meant any food that 
is not in a sufficiently fluid state to admit of its 
being swallowed readily without mastication. 
As previously stated, the stomachs of infants are 
just adapted to digest milk and similar food; but 
as the child advances in years, its stomach gradu¬ 
ally undergoes a change in form and structure, so 
that solid food is digested much more readily 
than is milk or other fluid substances. For this 
reason, our meals should be taken without drink. 
When we use drinks with our food, we are apt 
to wash it down half masticated, and, what is 
equally as detrimental to digestion, we fill our 
stomachs with fluid which serves only to dilute 


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17 


the gastric juice and prevent it from doing its 
work properly; for the food can never he digest¬ 
ed when the stomach contains much other fluid 
besides the gastric juice. Even in infancy the 
watery portion of the food is all absorbed from 
the milk or fluid food before the work of diges¬ 
tion can commence. 

The work of absorbing the fluids we drink not 
only retards the work of digestion, but also wea¬ 
ries the stomach and unfits it to do its work well. 

Another fact worthy of notice is, that if we ac¬ 
custom our teeth to masticate hard food, they 
will be sound, strong, and firm ; whereas if they 
are not so accustomed, they become weak and 
soon decay. 

Hot Drinks.— There is one habit, very detri¬ 
mental to health, that is indulged in by almost 
every family in the land; viz., that of taking hot 
Irinks with their meals. An incalculable amount 
ef injury is done to the teeth by the use of hot 
tea, coffee, and the various slop drinks which are 
prepared to take the place of these, and the same 
is eminently true of the stomach. Hot food or 
Irink relaxes and weakens the muscular coats of 
die stomach and thereby disqualifies it to do its 
work properly. In addition to these evils, many 
liseased actions and conditions are occasioned in 
die system by the poisonous constituents of the 
ma and coffee, such as the theine of the tea, and 
die poisonous drugs with which it is prepared and 
idulterated, and the caffeine of the coffee, and 
be foreign materials with which prepared coffee 
s often mixed. The same is also true of all 
stimulating drinks—all distilled and ferment- 
id liquors; hence, all such drinks should be 

Good Health 2 


18 


GOOD HEALTH, AND 


avoided, and no drink taken at any time except 
pure, soft water, if obtainable, or milk, or tiie 
freshly expressed juice of sound, ripe fruit. The 
last, however, should be taken immediately after 
it is pressed from the fruit, as fermentation soon 
takes place.' It should also be taken in very 
small quantities, for if taken in excess, more or 
less of it will ferment while in the system, before 
it can be used by the tissues. 

Temperature.— Another important condition 
on which health is based, is the right degree of 
temperature. This must be maintained; other¬ 
wise, health cannot long exist, for the proper cir¬ 
culation of the blood depends almost wholly upon 
the maintenance of the proper degree of temper¬ 
ature in the body. 

The heat of the body is all generated within 
the system by the friction which occurs in the 
processes of transformation (converting food into 
flesh) and disintegration (separating the worn- 
out tissues from the sound). In health, there is 
an equal development of heat in all parts of the 
system, the limbs being just as warm as other 
parts. Now as the oxidation of the wastes of 
the body is the chief source of animal heat, and 
as this oxidizing process is constantly occurring, 
it follows that heat is constantly generated with¬ 
in the system. This being the case, it is evident 
that unless there were some means for conducting 

o 

away the surplus heat, the body would sometimes 
become extremely hot. This want is incidentally 
supplied in the vaporization of the watery por¬ 
tion of the perspiration which is poured out 
upon the surface of the body by the sweat glands. 
This action is usually carried on without being 


HOW TO PRESERVE IT. 


19 


observed, when it is called insensible perspiration. 
At such times, evaporation takes place so rapidly 
that the perspiration does not accumulate. While 
this evaporation serves to assist in removing the 
excretions from the system, it also serves a most 
important part in regulating the temperature of 
the body, thus enabling it to endure the vicissi¬ 
tudes and changes of the w T eather and seasons, 
and to adapt itself to various and diverse cli¬ 
mates and countries. When a person is at rest, 
or exercising moderately, the evaporation of the 
small quantity of moisture which passes off in¬ 
sensibly is sufficient to keep the temperature of 
the body at the normal standard; but when vio¬ 
lent exercise is engaged in, the wastes of the 
body are greatly increased and, consequently, a 
much larger amount of heat is produced; but the 
circulation being necessarily increased at the 
same time, the sweat glands of the skin become 
correspondingly active and pour out upon the 
surface a much greater quantity of fluid which, 
by absorbing the heat of the body, is converted 
into vapor, thus rendering latent, and removing 
from the body, the surplus heat which would oth¬ 
erwise prove exceedingly detrimental to the in¬ 
terests of the system. 

If for any cause the temperature of the body 
either rises a few degrees above, or sinks a few 
degrees below, 98° Fahrenheit, the fluids become 
changed, the organs cease to perform their func¬ 
tions, and death follows. This being the case, it 
is easy to understand the importance of keeping 
the temperature of the body as near the normal 
standard as possible. One very essential means 
of keeping the body in this condition is the tak¬ 
ing of a bath once or twice a week, thereby 


20 


COOD HEALTH, AND 


keeping the skin clean and the pores open, that 
there may ever be a free exit for the perspi¬ 
ration. If for any cause the sweat glands have 
ceased their work, and the system has become 
hot and feverish, it should be frequently bathed, 
or dampened with wet cloths. The water used for 
this purpose may be either hot, warm, tepid, cool, 
or cold, as is most agreeable to the patient. As 
the water thus applied vaporizes, the heat of the 
body is conducted off and the fever is reduced. 

Another point to be considered in regard to 
temperature is that all parts of the body and limbs 
must have an equal temperature, for without an 
equal temperature there cannot be an equalized 
circulation of the blood, and without this, health 
cannot exist. 

ClothinCt.— There is probably no subject con¬ 
cerning which so little thought is given by the 
majority of women as the proper mode of cloth¬ 
ing the body so as to keep it in health. Many 
women, in these days of plenty, dress to look 
pretty and to outdo their neighbors, while very 
few dress with reference to the conditions that 
make dress a necessity. The primary necessity 
for dress is to prevent the too rapid escape of the 
heat of the body, and to protect the system from 
the evil effects of frequent atmospheric changes 
of temperature, humidity, etc.; and to meet these 
varying conditions should always be the chief 
aim in preparing clothing for the body. 

In order that the temperature of the body may 
nob be unbalanced, and one part become too warm 
while another part becomes too cold, it is neces¬ 
sary that all parts should be equally well clad. 
The limbs should be clothed just as warmly as 


HOW TO PRESERVE IT. 


21 


the body, and still more attention should be 
bestowed upon the clothing of the feet if the 
person is of sedentary habits. But this is not 
the way most women dress. They clothe the 
body altogether too warmly, loading it down 
with skirts, etc., while the limbs are exposed to 
a constant current of air. No woman, dressed in 
the usual manner, can walk without creating a 
current of air about her limbs by the swinging 
motion given to her dress. This must of neces¬ 
sity chill the limbs and prevent free circulation 
of the blood. 

Look at the manner in which little girls are 
dressed. It is just as impossible to rear the girls 
of the rising generation into healthful women 
unless their mothers dress them more healthfully, 
as it would be to make a world. Health and an 
equalized circulation are inseparable, and such a 
circulation cannot exist when the body is clad 
more warmly than the limbs. How often we see 
little girls with the dress made without sleeves, 
and reaching only to the knee, the arms and up¬ 
per part of the chest being left entirely bare, while 
the limbs were protected only by a pair of thin 
cotton drawers, which in many cases do not reach 
to the stockings. The effect of such a dress can 
only be to keep some parts of the body warm 
while other parts are allowed to chill. The cir¬ 
culation thus becomes unbalanced by the blood 
receding from the chilled surface and extremities, 
and, as a consequence, the vital organs become 
congested so that healthful action is impossible, 
and disease is the result. 

The women of America are great sufferers from 
diseases peculiar to the sex; and as all diseases 
are but results, so with these. They too have 


GOOD HEALTH, AND 


99 

*J 


boon produced by causes, and of these, the cause 
which has contributed more than any other to 
bring about the diseased condition in which they 
find themselves has been their manner of dress 
in childhood, youth, and adult life; for it is a 
fact that, with very few exceptions, women do 
not for a single day of their lives dress physiolog¬ 
ically, the dress in adult life being just as con¬ 
trary to the laws of health and hygiene as in 
childhood. 

Another point to be considered in adjusting 
the dress to the body is that it should set free 
and easy and should not cause pressure on any 
part, nor interfere in the least with any move¬ 
ment of the body or limbs. The chest must be 
especially guarded against pressure or constric¬ 
tion. If the waist is drawn in, there cannot bo 
free breathing; and without this, there can be 
but little vitality. The habit of wearing corsets 
or of tight lacing is very pernicious. Even the 
wearing of under garments fastened with bands 
about the waist is injurious. 

Clothe the arms, limbs, and feet j ust as warmly 
as any part of the body, suspend every garment 
from the shoulders, make the garments so that 
when the lungs are filled to their utmost capac¬ 
ity there will be room about the waist between 
the garment and the body. Be sure that the 
garments are all so adjusted that every move¬ 
ment which it is possible to make with any part 
of the body, limbs, or arms, may be made with¬ 
out straining the garment, and without causing 
pressure. Never wear a load of skirts to keep 
the limbs warm, but wear under garments that shall 
fit each limb separately. Let the entire body, the 
arms and the limbs, be enveloped in an under 


HOW TO PRESERVE IT. 


23 


garment all in one piece. Over this, clothe the 
limbs with suitable garments that will allow of 
the wearing of pants that reach from the knee to 
the ankle joint. Let the dress be worn so as to 
reach within six, eight, or ten inches of the floor. 
Clothe the feet with warm, high stockings and 
with shoes or boots sufficiently large to admit of 
moving the toes. Keep the shoes soft and plia¬ 
ble. The soles should be wide and thick; the 
heels should be neither high nor narrow. Never 
wear corsets, bands, or belts, about the waist. 
Never wear elastics, cords, or ribbons about the 
limbs to hold the stockings up. Retain them in 
place by buttoning them to the drawers. Keep 
the feet warm, the head cool, the circulation even, 
and the temperature of the body at 98°, and you 
will not be sick. 

Exercise.— Another condition on which health 
is based is exercise. The human body is com¬ 
posed largely of muscular tissue. Every move¬ 
ment of the body or of its various organs and 
tissues is performed wholly by muscular contrac¬ 
tion. There is not an organ or tissue, capable 
of action, in which muscular fibers do not form a 
part of the structure; and it is by the con¬ 
traction of these fibers that these organs and 
tissues are enabled to perform their functions. 
There is but one function that the muscles can 
perform, and that is contraction or exercise. 
Now, as healtli is that condition of the body in 
which every organ performs, or exercises, its 
functions properly, it is evident that health can¬ 
not exist without exercise. To insure health, 
every muscle must be brought into exercise. 
When this is not done, the tissues become soft 


24 


GOOD HEALTH, AND 


and flabby, the body weakens, the vital organs 
cease to perform their work properly, and the in¬ 
dividual soon finds himself becoming debilitated. 

One of the reasons—and it is not a slight one 
—why students, ministers, clerks, and women, 
especially the wives and daughters of the 
wealthy, find themselves in poor health, is be¬ 
cause they neglect to take sufficient exercise. 
Exercise always strengthens and increases the 
health of any portion of the body by increasing 
the circulation of blood in the part. It also gives 
firmness and elasticity to the tissues. The arm 
of the blacksmith feels solid and firm, while that 
of the clerk is soft and without strength. 

All who would have health must take daily 
exercise in the open air. See articles on Air and 
Light. 

Rest. —This is also a condition which is req¬ 
uisite to health. Many people become diseased 
through want of rest; yet the same individuals 
might accomplish more than they now do if they 
only knew how to rest to the best advantage. 

Rest does not consist in idleness, but chiefly in 
change of employment. The individual who lies 
in bed for forty-eight or sixty hours, thus becom¬ 
ing weary, will find rest by rising and engaging 
in labor. The same is true with the student. 
He, too, finds rest in manual labor, in walking, 
or in almost any kind of physical exercise. It is 
when labor is constant, and is all performed 
through one set of organs, that it becomes weari¬ 
some. What is required in the matter of exer¬ 
cise and rest is that when one set of organs have 
become weary, they should be allowed to rest, 
another set being called into immediate action. 


HOW TO PRESERVE IT. 


25 


Man is a being whose organism demands that 
he should manifest vitality in a diversity of 
ways. He requires physical, intellectual, and 
moral exercise, and he can act in no one of these 
directions continuously, or uninterruptedly, for 
any length of time, without positive injury to 
his health; neither can he possess good health 
unless he does, at regular periods, take exercise 
in each of these three ways. 

Man’s organs of physical action can only be 
used in physical exercise; his intellectual organs 
in intellectual exercise; and his moral organs in 
the manifestation of moral attributes. Each of 
these classes of labor must be performed daily to 
insure the most perfect health. 

How to Take Exercise and Rest. —If we 
would enjoy the highest possible degree of health, 
we should be occupied from six to ten hours 
daily in physical labor, from two to four hours 
in intellectual labor, and from one to three hours 
in meditation and moral reflection, three to five 
hours in social intercourse, during which time the 
meals should be taken, and the remaining six or 
eight hours in sleep. 

When the organs of voluntary motion have 
performed their allotted task, they should rest, 
and the mental organs should, for a time, be 
called into action by meditation upon those 
things which relate to the development of moral 
character, after which they may be exercised by 
investigating, for a time, some subject relating to 
literature, science, or social or political relations, 
and thereby develop the intellect. In so doing, 
time is afforded each part and organ for rest. 
Recreation should usually be taken in a social 


2G 


GOOD HEALTH, AND 


manner, since much more pleasure, and conse¬ 
quent benefit, will be thus derived from it than 
when taken otherwise. The same is equally true 
of catino’ since cheerful conversation and associ- 

O 7 

ation are promotive of digestion. 

Sleep.— As already intimated, sleep is highly 
essential to health. In fact, without regular pe¬ 
riods for sleep, there can be no health, as it is 
during those periods that the tissues of the body 
are most perfectly built up. While the individ¬ 
ual is awake, he is more or less active, especially 
his sensory and motor systems of nerves. Sleep 
is simply the resting of the brain from all mental 
exercise, and the consequent cessation of the 
above-mentioned nerves from all labor. The 
amount of time required for sleep varies with 
different individuals. A person who is sluggish 
in all his habits, requires more hours for sleep 
than a person possessed of greater activity, for 
the reason that he sleeps slower; that is, the 
reparation of his tissues is carried on less actively. 
He consequently requires more sleep—more time 
to repair and build up the various tissues of the 
body. It is for this reason that a man of nerv¬ 
ous temperament requires much less sleep than 
others. 

Beds and Bedding.— The health of many peo¬ 
ple is injured most seriously by inattention to 
their beds and bedding. Feather beds are very 
prolific sources of disease and hence ought not to 
be used. Being composed of animal matter, they 
are constantly undergoing decomposition, which 
is increased by the heat and moisture transmitted 
to them from the body, which causes them to 
send off noxious and poisonous gases, the result 


HOW TO PRESERVE IT. 


27 


}f putrefaction. These gases are absorbed and 
taken into the system, thus engendering disease. 
Hair, straw, husks, shavings, cotton, or wool, is 
much better than feathers. Yery soft beds are 
also objectionable. They should be as hard, and 
the bed-clothing should be as light, as may be 
with proper regard to comfort. On rising, in the 
morning, the bed should be left open for a few 
hours, exposed to the air, as it is filled with or¬ 
ganic impurities that have passed off from the 
body with the insensible perspiration. 

Beds should always be kept scrupulously clean 
by frequent change of the clothing. Mattresses, 
guilts, and blankets, as well as sheets, should be 
frequently cleansed. The practice of many peo¬ 
ple in allowing the same mattress to be slept up¬ 
on for years without cleansing is a most filthy 
and disease-producing one. 

Many people have taken colds that have re¬ 
sulted in death, while others have laid the foun¬ 
dation of a life-lasting disease, by sleeping in 
damp, close rooms, or damp beds. If a room or 
bed has not been used for some time, both should 
be thoroughly aired before being occupied. 

Bodily Habits. —Mo person can have health 
for any great length or time unless he is regular 
in all his bodily habits. The meals should be 
taken with regularity, and the hours for retiring 
md rising should vary as little as possible. It 
is also equally important that the bowels should 
move regularly every day, and as nearly as pos¬ 
sible at the same hour each day. Many people, 
by neglecting this and disregarding the calls of 
nature, entirely destroy the natural regularity of 
this one of the excretory functions. Tliis neglect 


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C400D HEALTH, AND 


is one of the first causes of constipation, and man) 
other diseases, as piles, diarrhea, etc. 

Bodily Positions. —A person while sitting 
standing, walking, or exercising, should always 
use care to preserve an upright position of the 
body, keeping the head erect and the shoulders 
well thrown back. If the body is bent forward 
the vital organs are compressed; and if it is beni 
sidewise, the spine is injured. 

Many persons forget that the hips are the 

proper place for bending the body, and they bend 

forward by crooking the trunk. Many parents 

allow their children to form a habit of sitting 

<_ , 

with the abdomen and stomach elrawn in and the 
spine curved, with the shoulders drawn forward 
and the head down. Such children will be very 
liable to dyspeptic difficulties and lung complaints. 
They will also become rounel shouldered and will 
make a very awkward appearance in society. A 
crooked person cannot look well. 

It is better that most people should sleep with¬ 
out pillows, or at least with very thin ones, un¬ 
less in the habit of sleeping upon the side. Chil¬ 
dren are often injured, and their spines distorted 
for life, by this habit. Those whose spines have 
become crooked by any of these causes should 
make persevering efforts to straighten themselves 
by always endeavoring to stand and sit erect 
If they find themselves too feeble to do this long 
at a time, they should change their position fre¬ 
quently. Work, sit, stand, lie down, etc., as often 
as either position becomes painful, but keep the 
shoulders back continually. 

Mental and Social Influences. —Cheerful¬ 
ness is a very great promoter of health, while 


HOW TO PRESERVE IT. 


20 


sadness and melancholy are often precursors of 
lisease, and are always detrimental to health, 
die influence of the mind over the physical con- 
litions of the body is very great. An individual 
n good health may become diseased, and even 
lie, through the sole influence of his own per¬ 
verted imagination. In fact, it is often the case 
diat individuals who are but slightly ailing dwell 
jpon their ailments, imagining themselves in a 
worse condition than they ready are, and give 
way to their morbid feelings until they finally 
nduce the very conditions in which they imag- 
ne themselves to be, thus, by mental influence a- 
one,bringing themselves to the brink of the grave. 

Again, many individuals who have been 
nost seriously ill, have recovered from their ill¬ 
ness when apparently beyond the reach of as¬ 
sistance. When inquiry is made concerning the 
iause of their recovery, it is found that they had 
p*eat hope and cheerfulness, and an indomitable 
will that would not yield to discouragements, 
Dut which kept them ever hopeful and cheerful, 
which state of mind soon induced in their sys¬ 
tems a change for the better, which, after a time, 
resulted in their entire recovery. 

Cheerful companionship promotes health; while 
die society of persons who are fretful or despond- 
ng is liable to induce the same conditions in 
)thers and thereby bring them into a state in 
which they will be easily susceptible to the in- 
luences of disease. For this reason, a person who 
would have health should seek the society of 
iheerful companions, and should also be cheerful 
limself, without worrying and fretting over that 
which he cannot avoid, or concerning which be 
mows nothing. He should ever feel that, if he 


30 


GOOD HEALTH, AND 


faithfully performs all Iris duties, it will be safe 
for him to trust both himself and the conse¬ 
quences of his deeds with Him who sees the end 
from the beginning. He should also have an aim 
in life, a something to accomplish. Without this 
he will have nothing to induce him to put forth 
effort and develop the full powers of his being 

A person who passes listlessly through life 
with no object to accomplish, and with no feeline 
of sympathy and love for his fellows, can nevei 
become fully developed; the brain and nerve tis¬ 
sues will not be properly matured because not 
sufficiently exercised, and the individual will be 
liable finally to pass into a state of semi-idiocy 
or of disease. Therefore, to be healthy, be cheer¬ 
ful, hopeful, sociable, energetic; aim high, and 
try to accomplish something. Make life a success 

External Relations. —The health of indi¬ 
viduals is often materially affected, by theii 
surroundings. All miasmatic emanations ris- 
ing from damp or w r et places, all exhalations 
from cemeteries, all noxious gases rising from de- 
caying animal or vegetable substances, or from 
animal excrements, are detrimental to health 
hence the objects or substances from whence 
these arise may be sources of disease. 

A person who is of a naturally cheerful dispo 
sition may be thrown into a state of gloom anc 
disquietude that will eventually result in sick¬ 
ness, and even death, simply by unpleasant sur¬ 
roundings. In fact, this has often been the case 
with persons who have been reared in pleasani 
homes, surrounded by bright flowers and shady 
trees, with picturesque scenery, where everything 
the eye beheld served to elevate the mind and in- 


1I0VV TO PRESERVE IT. 


31 


spire the soul. When they came to change local¬ 
ities and settle on some monotonous prairie, or 
in some gloomy forest home, their minds became 
depressed, and disease soon followed. On the 
other hand, individuals living amidst disagreea¬ 
ble surroundings, and who have thus become 
sick, often recover health by simply changing 
their surroundings, so that everything shall be 
more agreeable to the external senses. 

Therefore, let all who would be healthy, and 
who would have their families healthy also, sur¬ 
round themselves with that which is beautiful 
and pleasant, make everything the eye shall rest 
upon as agreeable as possible, and carefully avoid 
locating the family residence near any marsh, 
frog pond, or pool of stagnant water. Never al¬ 
low stable or barnyard litter to accumulate where 
the effluvia emanating therefrom shall be wafted 
to your door by every breeze. See that no swill 
barrel, filthy pig-pen, or privy, shall send forth 
its disgusting and poisonous odors where they 
will be inhaled by any of your family. Plant 
here and there shrubs, trees, and flowers, to re¬ 
lieve the monotony of the scenery and greet the 
eye with their rich foliage and enlivening colors, 
begetting in the mind cheering, noble, and ele¬ 
vating thoughts. Provide a comfortable house 
that shall be warm in winter, and cool as possi¬ 
ble in summer, as your residence. Keep the 
fences in repair and in order, so that whatever 
the eye beholds shall beget within the mind a 
feeling of contentment, and you will have done 
much to keep disease from your household. 

Conclusion.—I n view of the foregoing, we 
find that health is not a condition that can exist 


32 GOOD HEALTH, AND HOW TO PRESERVE IT. 

independent of circumstances or laws, but tlial 
it is a state of vital activity which is very liable 
to be interrupted by surrounding circumstances 
and which is largely dependent upon the exist¬ 
ence of certain conditions that are within the 
control of human beings, and that these condi¬ 
tions are all met when we supply the body with 
pure air, light, pure soft water, wholesome food 
in proper amount and at proper times, tempera¬ 
ture of the right degree, clothing in proper amount 
anel properly adjusted, exercise of the right kind 
and amount, proper rest and sleep, proper mental 
and social influences and external relations. 
When these conditions are all supplied, health 
follows as an inevitable consequence. 

In the preceding pages, the aim has been to 
state in a brief, yet concise, manner, the condi¬ 
tions upon which health is based, thus adapting 
this tract to the wants of those who wish to pre¬ 
serve health ; but inasmuch as ninety-nine one- 
hundredths of civilized human beings are in a 
condition of disease, it becomes important that 
they should be informed in regard to the means 
of obtaining or regaining the coveted blessing 
which so few appreciate until deprived of it. To 
meet this demand, two other tracts have been 
prepared which are intended to supplement the 
foregoing. They are entitled, respectively, “ The 
Nature and Cause of Disease, and the So-called 
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This work is a clear and comprehensive exposition 
of the nature and true cause of disease, and also ex¬ 
poses the absurdity and falsity of drug medication. 

Published at the Health Reformer Office. Price, post¬ 
paid, 15 cents. 

The Bath: Its Use and Application. 

This very valuable work contains a full description 
of the various baths employed in the hygienic treat¬ 
ment of disease, together with the manner of apply 



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ing them, and the diseases to which they are severally 
adapted. 

Published at the Health Reformer Office. Price, post¬ 
paid, 20 cents. 

The Treatment of Disease. 

In this most important work may be found an 
accurate description of the symptoms and proper treat¬ 
ment of more than one hundred diseases, comprising 
all of those which are susceptible of ordinary home treat¬ 
ment. It is an invaluable work for all who are not pro¬ 
fessionally educated in the theory and practice of medi¬ 
cine. The only remedies recommended are of course 
strictly hygienic in their nature, drugs of every descrip¬ 
tion being entirely discarded as curative agents. 

Published at the Health Reformer Office. Price, post¬ 
paid, 35 cents. 

- - 90 * -- 

The Hygienic System. 

By P. T. Trall, M. D. 

This important work treats upon the Principles of Hy¬ 
gienic Medication—Hygeio-Therapy—The Essential Na¬ 
ture of Disease—The Modus Operandi of Medicine—The 
Delations of Remedies to Diseases—The Relations of 
Remedies to the Healthy Organs—The Doctrine of Vi¬ 
tality—The Law of Cure—The Problems of Medical 
Science. It should be read by the million. 

Published at the Health Reformer Office. Price, post¬ 
paid, 15 cents. 





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Health and Diseases of Woman. 

By R. T. Trall, M. D. 

This work treats upon Woman and the Medical Pro¬ 
fession—Opium—Alcohol—Tobacco — Drugs— The Pace 
Imperiled—Responsibilities of Parents—American Moth¬ 
ers—Woman’s Disadvantages—The Medical Profession 
vs. Woman—Origin of Many Infirmities—Dress and Res¬ 
piration—Dress and the Sexual Functions—Should Fash¬ 
ionable Women Marry ?—Drugging at Puberty—Scien¬ 
tific Druggery—Scanzoni vs. Churchill—Dr. Prescott on 
Druggery—Drugging in Acute Diseases—Prof. Gilman 
on Puerperal Fever—Drugging During Pregnancy—Drug¬ 
ging During the Lying-in Period—Chronic Drug Disease 
—the Better Way—Tobacco vs. Woman. 

It should be in every family, and be read by every 
woman and every girl in the land. 

Published at the Health Reformer Office. Price, post¬ 
paid, 15 cents. 

-KX- 

Tobacco-Using. 

By R. T. Trall, M. D. 

This is a Philosophical Exposition of the Effects of To¬ 
bacco on the Human System. Published at the Health 
Reformer Office. Price, post-paid, 15 cents. 

-*o*- 

Science of Human Life. 

This is a pamphlet of great value, containing three of 
the most important of Graham's Lectures on the Science 
of Human Life. It is published for the benefit of those 
who may not feel able to purchase the entire work, and 
contains most of that work which is of practical value 
to the reading public. 











OCR BOOK LIST. 


5 


Published at the Health Reformer Office. Price, post¬ 
paid, 35 cents. 


Hand Book of Health. 

This work treats upon Physiology and Hygiene. 

Published at the Health Reformer Office. Price, post¬ 
paid, bound in cloth, GO cents ; in paper cover, 35 cents. 

- - 

Cook Book, or Kitchen Guide. 

This work comprises recipes for the preparation of 
hygienic food, directions for canning fruit, &c., together 
with advice relative to change of diet. 

Published at the Health Reformer Office. Price, post¬ 
paid, 20 cents. 

— - ♦<>• — ■■ 

EXHAUSTED VITALITY; 

Or, a Solemn Appeal Relative to Solitary Vice, and the 
Abuses and Excesses of the Marriage Relation. We do 
not hesitate to say that this is the best work of the kind 
now in print in our country. It is gathered chiefly from 
the writings of the ablest and best writers upon the sub¬ 
ject. Of this subject, and this work, the compiler in his 
preface says :— 

u It is disagreeable to call attention to those sins of 
youth, and the abuses and excesses, even in the married 
life, which are ruining the souls and bodies of tens of thou¬ 
sands ; especially so, while feelings of great delicacy, rel¬ 
ative to the subject, exist in the public mind. But dis¬ 
agreeable though the task may be, facts, terrible facts of 
every-day observation, fully justify a solemn and faithful 
warning to all. We would cherish the profoundest re¬ 
spect for the delicate feelings of the truly modest and 
the really virtuous ; but we confess our want of respect 
for that false delicacy in many which takes fright at the 









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mention of those vices, in consequence of which, they 
themselves exhibit evident marks of rapid decay. 

“ The reader may as well prepare at the first, by laying 
aside feelings of false delicacy, if he is troubled with them, 
to be benefited by the painful facts, plainly stated in this 
work. The real value of the lengthy article on 

“ CHASTITY ” 

Cannot be estimated by dollars and cents. Every youth 
in the land should read it. And not only the youth, but 
every parent and guardian, should study it well, and be 
prepared in a proper way to warn those children under 
their immediate care. And let every mother be stirred 
by the article under the caption of 

“APPEAL TO MOTHERS.” 

It comes from a mother’s heart—from one who has had 
experience in laboring for the unfortunate victims of se¬ 
cret vice, and is imbued with the importance of the sub¬ 
ject. The extracts entitled 

“EVILS AND REMEDY,” 

Although unvailing many dark pictures, are entitled to 
consideration as the utterances of one whose extensive 
study of human nature has qualified him to speak to the 
point on this important subject.” 

Published at the Health Reformer Office. Price, post¬ 
paid, bound in cloth, 60 cents ; in paper cover, 30 cents. 

- »<>« - 

THREE-CENT TRACTS. 

The following tracts are offered, post-paid, for three 
cents each, or two dollars per hundred. This list of 
tracts will be greatly increased. 

Dyspepsia : Its Causes, Prevention, and Cure. 

The Dress Reform: Containing reasons for the most 
Healthful, most Modest, and most Convenient Style of 
'Woman’s Dress. 

The Principles of Health Reform: Important to 
those whose minds should be called to first principles. 




THE HEALTH REFORMER. 


This is a monthly journal devoted to physical, mental, 
and moral culture. 

ITS MISSION. 

As indicated in the prospectus, its mission is to con¬ 
tribute to the improvement of mankind physically, men¬ 
tally, and morally. Of the necessity for reform in these 
particulars, we need not speak ; for the alarming evi¬ 
dences of physical degeneracy and disease, mental ineffi¬ 
ciency, and moral turpitude, which we see about us on 
every hand, speak more loudly than can words of the cry¬ 
ing need of immediate and thorough reformation. 

Progression is the spirit of the times. Social reform, 
prison reform, civil service reform, and various other re¬ 
forms, each in its turn, calls for the careful and candid 
consideration and hearty co-operation of every intelligent 
man and woman. And very just and appropriate is this 
demand; for nothing can be more promotive of the in¬ 
terests of society than improvement—progression— re¬ 
form, Without this, stagnation would result, and civili¬ 
zation would soon degenerate into the veriest barbarism. 
Its value, then, cannot be overestimated; and every truly 
reformatory movement should receive our most serious 
and attentive consideration. 

As its name would suggest, the Health Reformer 



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THE HEALTH REFORMER. 

is published in the interest of a reformation which has a 
special bearing upon health; health—physical, mental, 
and moral. Perfect physical development, clear mental 
faculties, and acute moral sensibilities, constitute the per¬ 
fection of manhood or womanhood. Can there be any¬ 
thing more important, then, than a reform which aims tc 
secure these three conditions, which, when attained, will 
place a person in that state of perfection which will en¬ 
able him to realize the highest degree of enjoyment pos¬ 
sible for man to experience ? May we not justly claim 
that, while the reforms which have been mentioned are 
of great moment and absorbing interest, they are all 
eclipsed by the far greater importance of this reform 
which deals with those principles which underlie the 
whole superstructure of moral and social life, and which 
strike at the very root of all the evils which curse society, 
and rest like a mighty incubus upon the world? 

PLAN OF ACTION. 

In order to accomplish the desired object, which has 
already been set forth, the conductors of the Reformer 
have adopted this as a fundamental principle of action: 
Physical reform is the basis of all reform. The truth 
of this principle is evident when we consider, 

1. The intimate relation of mind and matter, and the 
wonderful manner in which the mind is affected by the 
varying conditions of the body; so that whenever the 
body suffers from serious injury of any kind, the mind 
is correspondingly impaired, as is seen in the fever 
patient raving in the wildness of delirium. 


THE HEALTH REFORMER. 


9 


2. The fact that the condition of a person’s moral or¬ 
gans depends so largely upon that of the body and mind ; 
.s is illustrated by the victim of despair who labors under 
he impression that his doom is sealed, when his only 
liffieulty is a torpid liver; or the irritable, misanthropic 
lyspeptic, whose unhappy mental condition is wholly due 
o a disordered stomach. 

In view of these facts, it appears that the most im- 
)ortant branch of the work of the Reformer is in the 
lirection of physical improvement and reform, since 
he success of each of the other branches is contingent 
ipon the success of this. 

But while constantly aiming at reform, and so con- 
ending against adverse and opposing influences, the con- 
luctors of the Reformer are careful to avoid those ex- 
remes into which so many reformers allow themselves, 
mwittingly, perhaps, to be led. They also ever seek to 
nanifest that liberality of sentiment which is in harmony 
nth the spirit of the present time, when every man is 
xpected and urged to think and form opinions for him- 
elf. By so doing, they hope to incite a spirit of investi- 
;ation, which, when pursued with candor and an unbiased 
udgment, can hardly fail to convince the reader of the 
ruth of the positions taken. 

Those who conduct the Reformer endeavor to fill 
ts columns with matter of practical importance and inter- 
st to every, subscriber. Thorough instruction is given 
u regard to these two most important subjects. 


10 


THE HEALTH REFORMER. 


HOW TO RECOVER HEALTH, ANT) HOW 
TO RETAIN IT, 

These subjects being treated by those whose personal ex¬ 
perience enables them to speak understandingly. In fact, 
we put forth every effort to make the Reformer indis¬ 
pensable to every household , and of especial interest to 
that exceedingly large and unfortunate class of individ¬ 
uals who have been brought into the condition of inva¬ 
lids by disease. But the subject of health, proper, by 
no means receives exclusive attention. Considerable 
space is each month devoted to general literature, impor¬ 
tant and interesting discoveries in the arts and sciences, 
and such other subjects as are of general interest. 

PRESENT PROSPECTS. 

Notwithstanding the numerous and almost insurmount¬ 
able obstacles with which it has been obliged to contend, 
the Reformer has made constant and rapid progress in 
extending its sphere of usefulness, until it is now estab¬ 
lished upon a firm and satisfactory basis, being furnished 
with an able corps of contributors, numbering its patrons 
by thousands throughout the United States and Terri¬ 
tories. 

The publishers of this journal are actuated by purely 
philanthropic motives, and hence offer it at such terms 
as will enable every person to obtain it who has any de¬ 
gree of interest in the important subjects, How to (LET 
WELL and how to KEEP WELL. Terms, $1.00 a 
year, in advance. Specimen copies sent free on application. 
Address, Health Reformer, Battle Creek , Mi eh. 


THE HEALTH INSTITUTE. 


LOCATION. 

This model health institution is situated in the most 
healthful and delightful part of the proverbially neat and 
enterprising city of Battle Creek, Michigan, an impor¬ 
tant station on the Michigan Central B. B., about half 
way between Chicago and Detroit. Several railroads 
intersect at this point, making it easy of access from all 
directions. 

GBOUNDS. 

The grounds are ample, consisting of a site of about 
twenty acres, a large portion of which is covered with 
shade, ornamental, and fruit trees. They are also high, 
overlooking the entire city, and affording a fine view of 
the landscape for miles around. 

The soil is of such a nature that mud is almost en¬ 
tirely unknown, a few hours of sunshine after a rain 
rendering the walks and roads in and about the grounds 
so free from dampness that the most delicate invalid may 
indulge freely in the benefits of out-of-door life and ex¬ 
ercise. 

In front of the main building, and between it and the 
road, is a beautiful grove, which extends along the street 
in each direction from it, some thirty rods, affording a 



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THE HEALTH INSTITUTE. 


delightful place of resort during the summer months. 
The grove is also provided with such means of exercise 
and recreation as are both healthful and entertaining ; as 
croquet grounds, conveniences for gymnastic exercises, 
etc. 

BUILDINGS. 

These comprise a large main building, and seven fine 
cottages, all situated upon the same site. The main 
building contains commodious parlors, dining halls, bath 
and movement rooms, etc., etc., while the other buildings 
are fitted up as private apartments for patients. By this 
means are secured that quiet and retirement which are of 
such paramount importance to the invalid, and which 
cannot be obtained in an institution where scores of suf¬ 
fering individuals are crowded together under one roof. 

BOOMS 

Are large and well ventilated, and are furnished much 
better than in any other institution of the kind, thus af¬ 
fording the patient all the luxuries and comforts which 
he enjoys at home, and many more. 

PLAN OF TBEATMENT. 

At this institution diseases are treated on strictly hy¬ 
gienic principles; that is, only those remedies are em¬ 
ployed which will assist nature in her healing work, and 
will in no way endanger the life or constitution of the 
patient. Drugs and poisons of every description are en¬ 
tirely discarded as curative agents ; but all known meam 



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of restoring health are constantly emplo} r ed, poisons alone 
being excluded from our materia medica. 

OUR REMEDIES 

Then are Light, Water, Air, Electricity, Exercise, Cheer¬ 
fulness, Rest, Sleep, Proper Clothing, Proper Food, and, 
in fact, all Hygienic and Sanitary Agents. 

OUR PHYSICIANS. 

The medical faculty of the institution is composed of 
an adequate number of conscientious, watchful and effi¬ 
cient physicians, who give personal and unremitting care 
and attention to their patients, anticipating, as far as pos¬ 
sible, their wants, carefully studying their cases, and ap¬ 
plying every means in their power to restore them to 
health. 

OUR FACILITIES. 

Very few institutions are provided with conveniences 
and advantages equal to ours. Our bath rooms are both 
capacious and convenient, and are furnished with an in¬ 
exhaustible supply of pure, soft water. Several rooms 
are also prepared especially for the administration of the 
Sun-Bath. 

SPECIAL ADVANTAGES. 

In addition to the appliances usually employed in such 
institutions, we make use of the Hot-Air Bath (which 
possesses all the virtues of the Turkish-Bath, while avoid- 


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ing its evils), the much-renowned Electric or Electro 
Thermal-Bath, the Lift Cure, and the celebrated Swed 
ish Movement Cure, which are so successful in man} 
cases which cannot be reached by other means. 

DIET. 

While we reject from our dietary those perniciou; 
drinks and condiments which are the potent agents ir 
bringing thousanis to untimely graves, we take care tc 
supply our table with an abundance of nutritious anc 
palatable food, consisting of fruits, grains, and vegetables 
We do not enforce, however, a radical and immediate 
change from old habits, but give the patient time to ac 
commodate himself to the new diet. 

OUR SUCCESS. 

The class of individuals w T ho seek aid at our institutior 
is very largely composed of those who are afflicted witl 
chronic diseases, and who have been drugged and poi 
soned until their vitality has become well-nigh exhausted 
and they are given up by their friends and medical ad 
visers to die. Under these circumstances, they come t( 
us as a final resort, and, thanks to a true and poten' 
system of treatment, this last hope is seldom disappoint 
ed. Among the hundreds who have thus come to us anc 
found relief from their ills and pains, during the eigtr 
years since the establishment of this institution, the fol 
lowing cases, here briefly reported, have been treatec 
within the last few months :— 


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THE HEALTH INSTITUTE. 

CONSUMPTION. 

Many cases miglit be cited, and references given, in 
which this most insidious and hopeless of all diseases has 
been robbed of its victims and a new lease of life given 
them by a few months’ stay with us. 

DYSPEPSIA. 

Hundreds have come to us afflicted with this most de¬ 
plorable disease in its most aggravated forms, and, after 
staying a proper time, have returned to their friends re¬ 
lieved of their sufferings. 

PARALYSIS. 

Even this formidable disease is, in many cases, treated 
with entire success, the use of paralyzed organs being 
wholly restored. 

DROPSY. 

In one case, the patient came to the Institute after 
having been given up to die by friends and physicians. 
He had been tapped many times, as the accumulation of 
fluid was so rapid that respiration was rendered ex¬ 
tremely difficult in a few days. Cured in a few months, 
and reports himself still in good health. 

SCROFULA. 

Many cases of scrofula, often complicated with dys¬ 
pepsia, affections of the lungs, etc., have been treated 
with marked success. In one case, the patient had sev- 


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THE HEALTH INSTITUTE. 


eral large tumors, one nearly as large as an ordinary 
bowl. After a few weeks’ treatment, nature began tin 
curative work of absorption, thus effecting a cure. Tki: 
case bad been considered entirely liopeless. 

But space will not allow further description of tin 
desperate cases which have received treatment and resto 
ration at this institution; but we may add that equally 
good success has attended the treatment of Asthma 
Kidney Difficulties (of the worst forms), Chronic Dial' 
rhea, Chronic Congestion of the Brain, Cancer, Palpita 
tion of the Heart, Rheumatism, Neuralgia, Epilepsy 
Bronchitis, Piles, Ulceration of Bowels, Catarrh of Blad 
der and Bowels, Constipation (in some cases without i 
natural passage for many years), Spermatorrhea, and, ir 
fact, Chronic Diseases of all kinds. 

The most flattering success has attended the treatmeni 
of Uterine Difficulties, and all other Diseases of Women 
which receive special attention. 

ACUTE DISEASES. 

Our mide of treatment is specially adapted to this 
class of diseases, meeting with the most uniform success 
with Fevers and Inflammations of every type and form 
all Eruptive Diseases, etc., etc. 

To the sick, we say, Do not delay seeking our assist 
ance until your case is hopeless. Write at once for oui 
Circular, which will be sent free on application. 

Address, HEALTH INSTITUTE, 

Battle Creek, Mich. 


GOOD HEALTH 



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RESERVE IT, 


-BY- 


M. G. KELLOGG, M. D. 


‘Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest 
prosper and be in health.”—3 John 2. 


PUBLISHED AT 

THE OFFICE OF THE HEALTH REFORMER, 
BATTLE CREEK, MICH. 

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THE FOUNTAIN SYRINGE. 

In offering this Syringe to the public, we feel assured tl 
it must rapidly take the place of all other kinds, as all v» 
have tried it agree in saying that no other Syringe should 
used. 

The Fountain S' 
inge is simple in_ 
construction and ]( 
eration, so that f 
ble persons can’.i 
it without assistam 
being entirely se 
acting by the weight 
the liquid used. T 
Fountain must;., 
suspended three 
four feet above t 
point of applicatio 
The force thus o 
tained 3s found 
bundantly sufficie 
for every purpose, and in fact has been pronounced by re 
able authority the only safe method to which the systc 
should be subjected. 

One will last a lifetime, requiring no repairs, as the 
are no valves, nor anything that can possibly get out of ( 
der, consequently they are always ready for use. 

The Fountain Syringe cannot possibly inject air —whl 
«| is the cause of so much suffering from the use of all oth 
kinds, and on this account no other Syringe should be use 

It is not only a perfect enema-giving instrument of itse 
but by glancing at the cut it will be perceived that it is 
combination of which no other Syringe is capable. No. 1 
a Sprinkler for a light shower-bath,—clothes, floors, plani 
etc., etc. No. 2 is a Nasal Douche, which alone is wor 
the entire price of the article. No. 3 is for children and t 
ear. No. 4 is for the Rectum. No. 5, the Vaginal. 

Manufactured and for sale by Fairbanks & Co., No. 1: 
Court Street, Boston, Mass. 

We offer the Fountain Syringe, post-paid, at man 
facturers’ prices, as follows: No. 1, $2.50; No. 2, $ 3.0< 
No. 3, $3 50. 

Address, HFALTH REFORMER, 

Battle Greek, Mich. 

























OUR BOOK LIST. 


rite Hygienic Family Physician. As the title suggests, this 
rk is especially designed for family use. The book is of a 
roughly practical nature, and should be in the hands of 
sry family in the land, as it affords instruction of the most 
i\ importance. It is “a complete guide for the preserva- 
a of health and the treatment of disease without the use 
medicine.” 

Published at the Health Reformer Office. Cloth, bound, 

) pp. Price, post-paid, $1.00. 

*ood Health, and How to Preserve It. A brief treatise on the 
*ious hygienic agents and conditions which are essential 
the preservation of health. 

Published at the Health Reformer Office. Price, post-paid, 
cents. 

Vatiire and Cause of Disease. This is a clear and compre- 
lsive exposition of the nature and true cause of disease, 
l also exposes the absurdity and falsity of drug medication, 
’ublished at the Health Reformer Office. Price, post-paid, 
cents. 

rhe Bath. Contains a full description of the various baths 
ployed in the hygienic treatment of disease, and the man- 
• of applying them. / 

’ublished at the Health Reformer Office. Price, post-paid, , 
cents. 

Phe Treatment of Disease. For all who are not educated in 
theory and practice of medicine. The only remedies rec- 
nended are strictly hygienic. 

’ublished at the Health Reformer Office. Price, post-paid, 
cents. 

Ihe Hygienic System. By R. T. Trail, M. D. Published at 
Health Reformer Office. Price, post-paid, 15 cents. 

’obacco-Csing. By R. T. Trail, M. D. Published at the 
ilth Reformer Office. Price, post-paid, 15 cents. 















Our Book List,—Continued. 

Health and Diseases of Woman. By It. T. Trail, M. ] 
Published at the Health Reformer Office. Price, post-pai 
15 cents. 

Science of Human Life. This pamphlet contains three 
the most important of Graham’s Lectures. Published at tl 
Health Reformer Office. Price, post-paid, 35 cents. 

Hand-Book of Health. Treating on Physiology and Hyg 
ene. Published at the Health Reformer Office. Price, pos 
paid, bound in cloth, 60 cents; in paper cover, 35 cents. 

Cook Book, or Kitchen Guide. This work comprises ret 
pes for the preparation of hygienic food, and advice relati' 
to change of diet. Published at the Health Reforvier 0 
fice. Price, post-paid, 25 cents. 

Exhausted Vitality. A Solemn Appeal Relative to Solitai 
Vice, and the Abuses and Excesses of the Marriage Rel 
tion. Published at the Health Reformer Office. . Price, pot 
paid, bound in cloth, 60 cents ; in paper cover, 30 cents. 

Hydropathic Encyclopedia. Trail. Price, post-paid, $4.0 

Science of Hmnan Life. By Sylvester Graham, M. D.- 
Price, post-paid, $3.00. 

Domestic Practice. Johnson. Price, post-paid, $1.75. 

Health Tracts. Dyspepsia—Dress Reform—Principles 
Health Reform. By mail, post-paid, three cents each, 
$2.00 per hundred. 

Address, HEALTH REFORMER, 

* Battle Creek , Mich. 

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W A T ER FILTER. 

We furnish to order, Kedzie’s Water Filters, at the f( 
lowing prices: No. 1, $9.00; No. 2, $10.50; No. 3, $12.0< 
No. 4, $13.50; No. 5, $15.00. Freight will be added. 

Address, HEALTH REFORMER, Battle Creek , Mich. 






















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